Review: Killpoint
In what is absolutely not a forerunner to “Rush Hour” , Cop and widower Leo Fong teams up with ATF agent Richard Roundtree to take down nutty crime lord Cameron Mitchell and his arms dealer cohort named Nighthawk (Stack Pierce). Hope Holliday turns up as a madam, James Lew is a henchman, and that’s a young, baby-faced Branscombe Richmond talking to Fong in a locker room at one point. You’ve seen him get beaten up by most of your favourite 80s action heroes at some point. It’s his thing. Producer-star-golem Leo Fong combines with “Aftershock” director Frank Harris in this 10c action movie from 1984. Harris also scripts, produces, edits, and serves as cinematographer here. Co-star Hope Holliday serves as casting director and associate producer due to the apparent advice of her friend and co-star Cameron Mitchell, having produced several other Mitchell 80s cheapies as well. What’s my point? This whole film plays like a bunch of slumming colleagues and friends got together to pr...